Re: [PATCH] core-count: A new program to count the number of cpu cores

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello,

Erik Auerswald <address@hidden> writes:

> Why have an option for the default operation at all? If --available is
> the same as specifying no option and the only other mode of operation is
> --all, only the --all option should be recognised. There is no need for
> --available.

it is not very common case but it may be useful to override an alias:

$ OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 nproc
1

$ alias nproc="nproc --all"

$ OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 nproc
2

$ OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 nproc --available
1


Beside this one, I don't see other cases.

Cheers,
Giuseppe